When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

Have I told you lately that I love you, have I told you lately there's no one above you. Fill my heart with gladness, take away all my sadness, ease my troubles, that's what you do.

These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

You gotta fight every day to keep mediocrity at bay.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Let your soul and spirit fly.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name

Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature.

Love is such a deep gratitude. When you are truly in love with life, every breath you take is gratitude.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union.

I know I burn for you.Even in my sleep, the sleep of our people where there can be no thought,I burn for you.

One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

You have to pay so much to see theater, even in Chicago. In the Greek theater, you didn't have to pay anything. You actually had to go, and you just sat there all day.

It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.